Wayne Manor

Wayne Manor Estate
Batman location
Wayne Manor in Batman vol. 3 #16 (April 2017)
Art by David Finch
First appearanceDetective Comics #28
June 1939
Created byBob Kane
Bill Finger
GenreSuperhero comics
In-universe information
TypeMansion
LocationsGotham City
CharactersBruce Wayne
Thomas Wayne
Martha Wayne
Alfred Pennyworth
Dick Grayson
Lance Bruner
Barbara Gordon
Jason Todd
Tim Drake
Stephanie Brown
Damian Wayne
Duke Thomas
Cassandra Cain
Claire Clover
Julia Pennyworth
PublisherDC Comics

Wayne Manor is a fictional mansion appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. It is the home of Bruce Wayne, owner of Wayne Enterprises, who is also the superhero Batman.

The house is depicted as a large mansion on the outskirts of Gotham City and is maintained by the Wayne family's butler, Alfred Pennyworth. While the earliest stories showed Bruce Wayne buying the house himself, by the 1950s at the latest, retroactive continuity established that the manor had belonged to the Wayne family for several generations. Along with serving as a personal residence, the mansion sits above the Batcave, which Batman uses as his secret headquarters. The vast majority of DC Comics references place Wayne Manor just outside of Gotham City in the state of New Jersey.[1][2][3][4]

The manor, indicative of Wayne's ancestral wealth, is designed in a Gothic Revival architectural style, matching the Gothic architecture present in Gotham. For live-action films, English country house locations in Nottinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire, as well as Stevenson Taylor Hall in New York, have been used to depict Wayne Manor.

Wayne Manor appears in the 1960s Batman television series and in films Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997), in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), in the DC Extended Universe (2016–2023) and The Batman (2022).

  1. ^ Amazing World of DC Comics #14, March 1974. DC Comics.
  2. ^ World's Finest Comics #259, October–November 1979. DC Comics.
  3. ^ Detective Comics #503 June 1983. DC Comics.
  4. ^ Atlas of the DC Universe, 1990. DC Comics.